I had the opportunity to sit down and watch the 2008 movie "Stargate: Continuum". But I haven't seen the series, so this 2008 movie felt like I was lacking some preceeding information to fully understand what was going on and whom the characters in the movie were.

But at least "Stargate: Continuum" proved to be more enjoyable and entertaning than the 2008 movie "Stargate: The Ark of Truth", as the storyline told in "Stargate: Continuum" was just more interesting and easier to get submerged into, despite not having seen the series.

Visually then "Stargate: Continuum" was good, in fact better than "Stargate: The Ark of Truth". So that certainly helped to make this way more enjoyable.

There is a good combination of action and storytelling throughout the course of "Stargate: Continuum", so it makes for a wholesome entertaining experience actually.

My rating of "Stargate: Continuum" lands on a five out of ten stars.

O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and SG1 Tealc (Christopher Judge),Vala (Claudia Black),Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping),Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks),and Cameron Mitchell (Ben Browder) go to witness the last Ba'al clone extracted from his host. Vala disappears and then Teal'c among others. O'Neill is killed and the rest of SG1 escape back through the gate. In 1939, a ship carrying a Stargate gets invaded by Ba'al and his men. When Carter, Jackson and Mitchell re-emerge, they find themselves in that ship frozen in the modern Arctic. It turns out that it's the ship that was suppose to carry the first Stargate from Egypt to America. They are rescued by the alternate O'Neill. The government decides to scatter the three and find the Stargate in Anarctica without them. A year later, the Gouald under Ba'al attacks and the government recalls them for help.

It takes awhile to get going. It's the try and true sci-fi premise of time travel. It is done well. It's got good action. It's got the characters fans love. Overall, fans who follow the TV show will love this movie. Everybody else will have problem following it.

During a ceremony of extraction of the criminal Ba'al (Cliff Simon),the participants vanish and Colonel Cameron Mitchell (Ben Browder),Colonel Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) runs to the Stargate, traveling back to 1939 to the cargo ship Achilles. When the captain of the ship throws a ball in the sea, there is an explosion and the trio travels to a parallel world. They discover that Ba'al traveled to the past to sink the Achilles and avoid the start of the program. They try to convince the military leaders that they should reactivate the portal and restore their time-line. However, they are isolated in different states until the day Ba'al invades the parallel world with his spaceships.

"Stargate: Continuum" is a good entertainment, but I had some troubles in the beginning since I do not watch the series; therefore I do not know the characters. In spite of this limitation, I liked the story and the chemistry among the lead characters. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Stargate – Linha do Tempo" ("Stargate – Timeline")